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Taxi Smartphone Hails Increase

City Officials Vote To Extend E-Hail Program; May Make It Permanent

Taxi passengers and drivers are increasingly using electronic hailing apps, prompting city officials on Thursday to extend the pilot program and possibly permanently adopt it.

Statistics released by the Taxi and Limousine Commission show that users of hailing apps, such as Uber and Hailo, increased during the nine-month pilot program. The number of drivers picking those people up also increased.